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Benchmark 1

UNIT NAME: Ancient Civilizations
Standard(s): 1: Students will examine the lives of people during the beginnings of human society.
INDICATOR
WH 1.3 / CONTENT/CONCEPT / CRITICAL VOCABULARY / SKILLS / ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Describe social, cultural, and economic characteristics of large agricultural settlements on the basis of evidence gathered by archeologists.
Videos:
Symbols of the Neolithic Revolution (GL)
Two Separate Stories of Creation (GL)
The Earliest Human Migration
Technology and Archaeology (GL)
Images:
Hemudu neolithic settlement uncovered.
Hemudu bone plowheads and clay figure of a pig.
yubi (round piece of jade), from Western Han.
Stonehenge
Tortoise shell with incised pictographs.
Articles:
Neolithic Art
Yang-shao Culture
Korean Art and Architecture
Archaeology
Ethnology
Stonehenge
Discovery Education Resources
Videos:
Neanderthals: Our Ancestors?
Lifestyles of the Neanderthals
Common Terms and Their Meanings / Concepts
Neolithic Revolution
Agricultural Settlement
Domestication
Archeology
Cereal Grains
Excavation
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
Archaeologist
Site
Artifacts
Pottery Shards
Habitation
Artisans / Characteristics
Evidence
Economic
Social
Cultural
Agricultural
Paleolithic
Neolithic / Identify early pre-civilization agricultural locations.
Compare & Contrast descriptions of the sites to identify “characteristics”.
Analyze how these characteristics are manifest in American culture.
Evaluate the importance of each of the characteristics for maintaining our current “way of life.”

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Benchmark 1

UNIT NAME: Ancient Civilizations
Standard 2: Students will examine the characteristics of early civilizations, including those of North Africa, Southwest Asia, South Asia, and East Asia from 4000 B.C./ B.C.E. to 500 A.D./ C.E.
INDICATOR
WH 2.1 / CONTENT/CONCEPT / CRITICAL VOCABULARY / SKILLS / ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Define civilization and identify the key differences between civilization and other forms of social organization.
Videos:
Ancient Egypt: Three Thousand Years of Civilization The Nile: Where Egypt Began (GL)
Food, Agriculture, and the Economy
Building a Worthy Resting Place (Sneferu, King of Pyramids Part 1) (GL)
The Ancient Pyramids of the Americas (Master Builders Part 2) (GL)
The Bent Pyramid and Beyond (Sneferu, King of Pyramids Part 2) (GL)
The Uses of the Nile in Ancient Egypt (GL)
The Nile: Where Egypt Began (GL)
Etruscans
The Impact of Ancient India and China
The Record Keepers (GL)
The First Newspapers (Egypt/GL)
I Am My Father's Daughter (Egypt/GL)
A Magnificent Library (Egypt/GL)
Prosperity and Diplomacy (Egypt/GL)
The Impact of the Babylonians The Phoenicians
Ancient Middle East (GL)
Discovering Ancient Symbols and Inscriptions (China/GL)
The Lost City of Shang (GL)
Extraordinary Royal Treasure Findings (GL)
Images:
Great and Khafre's Pyramids at Giza
Sphinx at Giza - as seen from side
A map of Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East.
Map of Near Eastern civilizations.
Sennacherib II lays siege to Lachish.
A topographical map of Egypt and nearby areas.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a drawing.
Assyrian hunters with a gazelle.
Hammurabi receives laws from Shamash.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
Map: The ancient Egyptian civilization.
Three Etruscan vases.
Discovery Education Resources
Videos:
Speech and Language
The First Tools
The First Emperor
The World's First Empire / Concepts
Social Organization
Civilization
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
Mesopotamia
Egypt
China
Indus Valley / Social Organizations
Civilization
Define
Key differences
Critical Attributes
Features
Indicators / Identify the critical indicators of civilization.
Compare and contrast the critical features of a civilization with those of a settlement.

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Benchmark 1

UNIT NAME: Ancient Civilizations
Standard 2: Students will examine the characteristics of early civilizations, including those of North Africa, Southwest Asia, South Asia, and East Asia from 4000 B.C./ B.C.E. to 500 A.D./ C.E.
INDICATOR
WH 2.4 / CONTENT/CONCEPT / CRITICAL VOCABULARY / SKILLS / ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Explain relationships in early civilizations between the development of state authority and the growth of aristocratic power, taxation systems, and institutions of coerced labor, including slavery.
Videos:
The King Leaves Thebes (GL)
Daily Life (Egypt/GL)
Religion (Egypt/GL)
Social Classes (Egypt/GL)
Capturing a Thousand Cities (Egypt/GL)
An Historic Discovery (Egypt/GL)
Alexander the Great & the Greek Ruling Class (GL)
Fu Hao: Female Warrior Leader (GL)
Chinese Culture (GL)
Lady X: An Important Mummy (GL)
Retracing Nefertiti's Early Life (GL)
Ramses: Great Military Leader
All Evidence Suggests Ramses Was the Biblical Pharaoh
An Empire of Ideas (Baghdad/ GL)
The First Crusade (GL)
Waning Glory (Suleyman/ GL)
Ancient Chinese Walls
China (Intro. To Ancient Culture)
A Comparison of the Greek and Egyptian Civilizations (GL)
Images:
Shang oracle bone inscription.
Bodyguard of an ancient Persian king, ca. 400 B.C.
Cross carved on earlier stonework in Alexandria
Discovery Education Resources
Videos:
Crumbling Social Barriers / Concepts
Political Power
Aristocracy
Coerced Labor
Slavery
Systems of Taxation
Persons of Authority
Job Specialization
Social & Political Status
Engineering Skills
Priest-Kings
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
Kings
Irrigation Projects
Public Treasury
Duties to the State / Relationships
State Authority
Aristocratic Power
Taxation Systems
Institutions
Coerced Labor
Slavery / Identify the social, organizational, and engineering tasks undertaken by governments of civilizations.
Analyze reasons for having a central authority that can ensure that major tasks (irrigation systems, storage of surplus food, etc.) are coordinated, administered, and archived.
Describe reasons why stability of the state might best be achieved by a hereditary succession to leadership.
Analyze the religious and social connections between the growth of aristocratic power and the monarchy.

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Benchmark 1

UNIT NAME: Ancient Civilizations
Standard 2: Students will examine the characteristics of early civilizations, including those of North Africa, Southwest Asia, South Asia, and East Asia from 4000 B.C./ B.C.E. to 500 A.D./ C.E.
INDICATOR
WH 2.7 / CONTENT/CONCEPT / CRITICAL VOCABULARY / SKILLS / ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Compare and contrast the daily life, social hierarchy, culture and institutions of Athens and Sparta; describe the rivalry between Athens and Sparta; and explain the causes and consequences of the Peloponnesian War.
Videos:
Introduction: The Foundations of Western Civilization (GL)
The Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Conclusion (Spartans/GL)
Mediterranean Superpower (Greece/GL)
Athenian Democracy (GL)
Segregated (Role, Position of Women/GL)
History of Athens (GL)
Greek Civilization & Writing: Homer & Hesiod (GL)
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Greek Civilization and the Age of the City-State (GL)
The Land and City-States of Ancient Greece
The Impact of Ancient Greece
The Parthenon Frieze
The Evolution of Greek Art (GL)
The End of Sparta (GL)
Dawn of the Golden Age (GL)
Theater(In Greece)
Maternal Instinct (Spartan Women/GL)
Greek Heroes (GL)
Spartan Women (Spartans
Warriors (Spartans/GL)
Utopian Customs (Sparta/GL)
Segment Four: Spartan Warriors
Surrender (Peloponnesian War/GL)
Slave Nation (Sparta/GL)
War (Peloponnesian War /GL)
Aristotle
Plato and Aristotle (GL)
Ethical Debates about Politics: Plato & Aristotle (GL)
The Ideas of Aristotle (GL)
Greek Thought (GL)
Empire of Reason (GL)
Pericles' Gamble (GL)
Platonic Principles (GL)
The Enduring Philosophy of "The Republic" (GL)
The Trial and Execution of Socrates (GL)
The Allegory of the Cave (GL)
The Peloponnesian Wars
Author Profile: Plato (GL)
Images:
Map: The ancient Greek civilization.
Map of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations.
A covered passageway of the Knossos palace.
The site of the city of Mycenae, Greece.
Buildings outside the walls of Mycenae.
The Hellenistic gates of Perge, Turkey.
An old woman of the Hellenistic era.
Philip V, King of Macedon from 221 to 179 B.C.
Ancient Roman Statue of Athena Wearing a Helmet
The Lion Gate of Mycenae.
The precincts of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.
The Belvedere Apollo.
The Acropolis of Mycenae.
A doctor from classical antiquity examines a boy.
Pericles of Athens, 498-429 B.C.
The Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Thucydides
Brasidas
Articles:
Knossos or Cnossus
Greek Music
Greek Philosophy
Greek Art and Architecture
Classic, Classical, and Classicism
Minoan Culture
Helots
Lysander
Delian League
Greece
Aristotle
Peripatetics
Pericles
Plato
Socrates
Republic, The
Thucydides
Audio:
The Myths & Legends of Ancient Greece: The Trojan War
The Voyages of Ulysses & Aeneas: Ulysses Begins His Odyssey
Writing Prompts:
You are in the Olympics
Influential Literature
Emerging From the Cave / Concepts
Greek Civilization (shared)
Athenian Culture
Spartan Culture
Civic Life
Military State
Barracks Life Style
Home Life Style
Athenian Assembly
Ephors
Spartan Dual Monarchy
“Lie like a Spartan”
Helots
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
The Peloponnesus
Piraeus
Land Power
Naval Power
Colonization of Ionia
Athenian Militarism
Balance of Power within Hellas
Attica
Lysander / Compare & Contrast
Institutions
Rivalry
Causes
Consequences
Peloponnesian War
Delian League (Athenian Empire)
Helotes
Persian Wars / Describe the meaning and duties of a citizen within the Athenian State.
Describe the meaning and duties of a citizen within the Spartan State
Analyze the Athenian meaning of democracy.
Analyze the Spartan arguments for Sparta’s being a military state.
Analyze the process of immigration and colonization of the Ionian Islands and the Western Coast of Anatolia.
Analyze the role that Persia played by playing off the Athenians against the Spartans.
Analyze how the Athenian Delian League might be viewed as a threat to the balance of power within Hellas and the Peloponnesus.

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INDICATOR / CONTENT/CONCEPT / CRITICAL
VOCABULARY / SKILLS / ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Thucydides
Pericles
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle / Evaluate the impact of Athens’ changing from an empire of land and military might to an empire of the mind.
Describe the fate of victorious Sparta during the next 200 years.
Evaluate the impact of the war on Hellas as a whole and the coming of Alexander’s Empire.
Evaluate the role of the Hellenistic culture in holding together the expanses of Alexander’s Empire and unifying life on the European side of the Mediterranean.

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Benchmark 1

UNIT NAME: Ancient Civilizations
Standard 2: Students will examine the characteristics of early civilizations, including those of North Africa, Southwest Asia, South Asia, and East Asia from 4000 B.C./ B.C.E. to 500 A.D./ C.E.
INDICATOR
WH 2.8 / CONTENT/CONCEPT / CRITICAL VOCABULARY / SKILLS / ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Explain the role of Alexander the Great in the spread of Hellenism to Asia, North Africa, and parts of Europe.
Videos:
The Dream of the King of Macedonia (GL)
Alexander the Great
The Prince Learns to be a King (GL)
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great & the Greek Ruling Class (GL)
Into the Heart of the Persian Empire (GL)
Alexander Unifies the Greek City-States (GL)
The Spread of Hellenism (GL)
The Fate of the Empire (GL)
Conquering the Persians (Alexander/GL)
Ptolemy (GL)
Images:
Alexander the Great by Verrocchio.
Map, the empire of Alexander the Great.
The Pharos (lighthouse) of Alexandria, 280 B.C.
A map of the Hellenistic empire under Alexander.
Articles:
Alexander the Great
Antipater
Hellenistic Age
Ptolemy
Alexandria, Library of
Audio:
The Greek & Roman World: The Mediterranean Greeks: Alexander the Great / Concepts
Empire
Cultural Diffusion
Cultural Blending
Assimilation
Hellenism
Hellenistic
Cross-Cultural Marriages
Cultural Adaptation
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
Alexander the Great
Ptolemy / Explain
Role
Hellenism
Hellenic
Hellenistic / Using a map, describe the extent of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian Empire in terms of modern countries that would be included in it.
Analyze the impact of Greek soldiers and administrators ruling the Macedonian Empire.
Analyze the impact of Greek soldiers and administrators intermarrying with locals from the various provinces of the Macedonian Empire.
Evaluate the role of Hellenistic culture in holding together the expanses of Alexander’s Empire and unifying life on the European side of the Mediterranean.

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Benchmark 2

UNIT NAME: Ancient Civilizations
Standard 2: Students will examine the characteristics of early civilizations, including those of North Africa, Southwest Asia, South Asia, and East Asia from 4000 B.C./ B.C.E. to 500 A.D./ C.E.
INDICATOR
WH 2.12 / CONTENT/CONCEPT / CRITICAL VOCABULARY / SKILLS / ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Analyze the causes, conditions and consequences of the spread of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire, including the policies of Emperor Constantine the Great.
Videos:
St. Augustine's City of God (GL)
The Spread of Christianity, Buddhism, & Hinduism (GL)
The Byzantine Empire & Constantinople (GL)
Jerusalem's History
Blessed Are the Meek (Christianity and Rome/GL)
The Road to Damascus (Christianity and Rome/GL)
The Origin of Constantine the Great: A Brief History (GL)
The Birth & Spread of Christianity
The Roman Empire Continues in Byzantium in New Ways (GL)
A Jewish Uprising
Uprising in Judea Haunts Rome
Saul's Journey (GL)
The History of the Christian Presence in Jerusalem (GL)
The Rise of Christianity in Greece (GL)
Images:
The "Tomb of Absalom" in the Valley of Jehosaphat.
The Council of Constantine.
The Temple of Mithras at Ostia Antica, Italy.
Map, spread of Christianity to 12th century.
Constantine the Great, who reigned 306-337 A.D.
A statue of Helena, the mother of Constantine.
Site of Gamla, first major Jewish Revolt battle.
Ruins of the north fortifications at Masada.
The site of the Roman camps, viewed from Masada.
A topographical map of Masada.
"Christ between Peter and St. James Minor."
Teaching the importance of prayer.
The early Christian cave church at Antioch.
Early Christian symbols from the catacombs, Rome.
Articles:
Epistle
Nicene Creed
Filioque
Constantine the Great
Sylvester I, Saint
Masada
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Ephesians
Romans
Peter, Saint
Peter, Epistles of
Augustinians
Stephen, Saint
Apostolic Fathers
Holy Roman Empire / Concepts
Christianity
Equality in heaven
Equality in the eyes of God
“Slave Religion”
State Religion
Religious persecution
“City of God”
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
Jewish Revolts
Diaspora
Jesus
St Paul (Saul)
St Peter
Constantine the Great
“In this conquer”
Council of Nicene
St Augustine / Analyze
Causes
Conditions
Consequences
Policies
“the Great”
Messiah
Martyr
Bishop / Analyze the basic teaching of the Early Christian Religion.
Analyze the degree to which the operation of the Roman Empire was dependent upon slavery.
Analyze how a “slave religion” emphasizing equality might be a threat to the operation of the Roman Empire.
Evaluate how the use of persecution and horrific death in the area might impact the future of Christianity in the Roman Empire.
Synthesize reasons why Roman Emperors might decide to make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.

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